1 / 6 – 4 / 6 / 2011 – COMIC FESTIVAL LIGATURA/ POZNAN, POLAND: KOMIKAZE EXHIBITION + PART OF THE COMIC JURY
/ Jury Ligature Pitching 2011: Ivana Armanini (Croatia), Paul Gravett (Great Britain), Bartek Jelinek (USA), Ivan Mecl (Czech Republic) David Schiller (Latvia), Dmitry Yakovlev (Russia) / ORG: Michael Slomka / PRESS LINK
The 2nd edition of Ligatura consists of the following events: LIGATURA PITCHING 2011 – the only comic book pitchings in the world. It is a series of meetings of authors selected from among project submissions with an international jury committee. The purpose of the meetings is to promote the most interesting artists from our region. Meetings take the form of short 5-minute presentations of an idea for an album, series, or a shorter comic book form. The presentation may be multimedia in nature, it may be a presentation of sketches or ready-made charts and scenarios. Ligatura Pitching 2011 jury: Ivana Armanini (Croatia), Paul Gravett (UK), Bartek Jelonek (USA), Ivan Mecl (Czech Republic), David Schilter (Latvia), Dmitry Yakovlev (Russia). Catalog from Ligatura Pitching 2010
1ST PRIZE: JAY WRIGHT / 2ND PRIZE: JEROEN FUNKE
The idea of the LIGATURA International Comic Culture Festival is to create a pioneer genre of comics’ festival in Europe. A festival which by its focus on the cultural and social function of comics will present all the most important initiatives, publishing houses and all the trends in the general reflection upon the tradition and the development of the comics art. The main goal of LIGATURA festival is to create an international event in Poland, which will attract publishers, artists, directors of diverse festivals as well as activists in order to exchange experiences and create new contacts. Apart from the goal to create a culture of professionalism of the activities connected with the promotion and artistic works in the field of comics LIGATURA through the integration of the majority of the central European comics initiatives, publishing houses and the best artists originating in this region has great opportunities to become a leader in the communication and transmission of activities between and among the central, western European and American comics artists. LIGATURA is a festival, which represents the comics art in the culture through its promotion and introduction of new ambitious comics projects.
